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Two Jamaican generic companies, Lasco Distributors Limited and Medimpex Jamaica Limited, will go to the Supreme Court of Jamaica against Pfizer today for a damages hearing in a case that saw them being prevented from selling a generic drug. 20 July 2016
Big Pharma
Mayer Brown announced today that Genevieve Michaux has joined the firm’s government & global trade practice as partner in Brussels. 20 July 2016
Asia
Indonesia has ordered the immediate revamping of the Food and Drug Administration following the successful police investigation uncovering the selling, importing and utilisation of a fake child vaccine. 19 July 2016
Americas
Law firm Paul Hastings announced yesterday that Chad Peterman has joined the firm as a partner in the IP practice based in New York. 19 July 2016
Americas
A committee at the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a biosimilar application by pharmaceutical company Sandoz. 18 July 2016
Americas
US drugs company Pfizer has entered into a manufacturing and licensing agreement with Russian pharmaceutical company NovaMedica. 18 July 2016
Americas
Biotechnology company Amgen and Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo have agreed a deal that will allow for the commercialisation of nine biosimilars in Japan. 15 July 2016
Americas
Illumina has reached a settlement with Enzo Life Sciences, bringing an end to allegations that it infringed a DNA detection patent. 14 July 2016
Americas
US biopharmaceutical company Spectrum Pharmaceuticals announced yesterday that it had reached a settlement with UK healthcare company Fresenius Kabi in a patent dispute centring on the drug Folotyn. 14 July 2016
Americas
A US court has sided with Forest Laboratories in a dispute with Mylan Pharmaceuticals centring on the Savella drug. 13 July 2016